Critical Care Nurse
Riverdale Ga
• Assisted mothers and their families, providing antepartum, intrapartum intraoperative and postoperative care by completing assessments, providing ongoing education and emotional support, administering medication, inducing labor, monitoring vital signs, fetal heart rate, strength and timing of contractions, and cervical dilation.• Recognized and addressed complex issues, emergency situations, and responded in a timely manner.• Identify and resolve complications during labor and or delivery and prepare mothers and birthing rooms for vaginal delivery/ or the OR for cesarean delivery.• Monitored mother and infant and provided post-partum care after vaginal delivery or cesarean section. Maintained composure while functioning in very high stressed situations, provided counseling, support, and bereavement planning and community resources for mothers and family with Intrauterine Fetal Demise.Charge Nurse:• Provided direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols, assessed the skills of the staff and the needs of the patients.• Make nursing care assignments and facilitate and monitor day to day activity of the floor.• Coordinated the functions on assigned shift, demonstrated responsibility for all nursing care delivered on the shift, coordinated assignments, and provided resources for nursing care, ensured that the patient care assignment record was complete and nursing care was completed.